Andrew Garfield Investigates the Lafferty Murders in 'Under the Banner of Heaven': Watch the Trailer
etonline.comAndrew Garfield-aissance into another year is the upcoming true-crime series,, starring the 38-year-old actor as a detective investigating the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby.
Ahead of its April debut on Hulu, FX released the first official trailer for the seven-part saga also starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Rory Culkin, Sam Worthington and Wyatt Russell.
Adapted from Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction best-seller by creator and showrunner Dustin Lance Black, the series depicts the events leading up to Wright’s (Jones) murder that upended the lives in Salt Lake Valley, Utah, and Det.
Jeb Pyre’s (Garfield) investigation into the Lafferty family.According to FX, the “buried truths about the origins of the LDS religion and the violent consequences of unyielding faith” will lead Pyre, a devout Mormon, «to question his own faith.” While speaking to ET and other reporters during FX’s press day, Garfield explained the series will “pick at the root of the core of what enabled such evil to take place,” and what attracted him to the project was that the producing team involved “weren’t going to sensationalize anything.
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